CH 13 QUIZ 2

The Kansas-Nebraska Act was introduced to
 settle
the slavery issue in the territories
 strengthen the provisions of the Missouri
Compromise
 insure that the transcontinental railroad would
benefit Illinois
 satisfy the demands of abolitionists in the North

insure that the transcontinental railroad would benefit
Illinois

What party became the real successor to the
Whig party?
 Know-Nothing
party
 Republican Party
 Free Soil party
 Constitutional Union Party

Republican Party

Proslavery forces were responsible for the
 Secret
Six conspiracy
 raid on Harpers Ferry
 Pottawatomie Massacre
 sack of Lawrence

sack of Lawrence

What was the basic position of the Freeport
Doctrine?
 Territories
have the right to choose whether slavery
will be allowed
 Territories can prohibit slavery by refusing to adopt
laws that establish it
 Slaves do not have any rights as citizens
 Congress cannot forbid slavery in the territories

Territories can prohibit slavery by refusing to adopt
laws that establish it

According to Lincoln, what was at the heart of
his debate with Douglas?
 The
rights of states
 the immorality of slavery
 the social and political equality of blacks
 the need to preserve the Union

the immorality of slavery
 A)

John Brown
 B) James Buchanan
 C) Stephen A. Douglas
 D) John C. Fremont
 E) Roger Taney
___ Illinois Senator who scrapped the Missouri
Compromise to benefit his state

C) Stephen A. Douglas
 A)

John Brown
 B) James Buchanan
 C) Stephen A. Douglas
 D) John C. Fremont
 E) Roger Taney
___ war hero and the first Republican candidate for
president

D) John C. Fremont
 A)

John Brown
 B) James Buchanan
 C) Stephen A. Douglas
 D) John C. Fremont
 E) Roger Taney
___ last Democratic, pro-compromise president
(1857-61) before the Civil War

B) James Buchanan
 A)

John Brown
 B) James Buchanan
 C) Stephen A. Douglas
 D) John C. Fremont
 E) Roger Taney
___ fanatical antislavery terrorist

A) John Brown
 A)

John Brown
 B) James Buchanan
 C) Stephen A. Douglas
 D) John C. Fremont
 E) Roger Taney
___ Supreme Court chief justice who denied that
blacks had the rights of citizenship

E) Roger Taney
 A)

Andrew Brooks
 B) fire-eater
 C) Know-Nothing
 D) Republican
 E) Dred Scott
___ Southerner who attacked a Northerner in the
Senate chamber

A) Andrew Brooks
 A)

Andrew Brooks
 B) fire-eater
 C) Know-Nothing
 D) Republican
 E) Dred Scott
___ former slave who was denied any rights as a
citizen

E) Dred Scott
 A)

Andrew Brooks
 B) fire-eater
 C) Know-Nothing
 D) Republican
 E) Dred Scott
___ radical Southerner

B) fire-eater
 A)

Andrew Brooks
 B) fire-eater
 C) Know-Nothing
 D) Republican
 E) Dred Scott
___ anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic

C) Know-Nothing
 A)

Andrew Brooks
 B) fire-eater
 C) Know-Nothing
 D) Republican
 E) Dred Scott
___ antislavery, pro-business

D) Republican


True/False
___ by 1860 nearly half of all white Southerners
owned slaves

False


True/False
___ Abolitionists were primarily responsible for the
violence in “Bleeding Kansas”

False


True/False
___ Chief Justice Taney claimed the Constitution
recognized free blacks as citizens

False


True/False
___ Buchanan tried to start a war with the Mormon
settlers in Utah

True


True/False
___ Abraham Lincoln believed Congress should
abolish slavery in the South

False